Word: adapt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...virtually no new posts and had cost taxpayers €15 billion in subsidies. The findings were widely seen as politically partisan. Still bruised from the polls, Raffarin swiftly reassured the public that no 35-hour reform was imminent. That doesn't surprise many French business owners. "The ability to adapt [the] workforce to peak and slack periods was good, but I knew when I applied the 35-hour week that I wouldn't make new hires," says Patrick Roos, who employs 38 at his custom-made shutter company in Burgundy. Though he says he'd love to see more flexible...
...assuming power in 1998, just as the nation's IT industry began to blossom. And today's thundering economy?which grew by 10.4% in the last quarter?may owe more to last year's bounteous monsoon than to enlightened business reform. But the BJP has had the wit to adapt its message of strident Hindu nationalism to a more mature one of prosperous peace with Pakistan and loud pride in India's growing economic heft...
Professors say the new curriculum will adapt and incorporate some of the successful components of the current Core, combining them with more opportunities for students to take departmental courses or Harvard College courses to fulfill their general education requirements...
Since the film is loosely based on a true story of good triumphing over evil, Johnston was also sensitive to maintaining the integrity of the legendary Buford Pusser story and obliged himself to truthfully adapt the film after personally meeting with the Pusser family...
After losing the conference championship to the Crimson, there were a lot of questions remaining about how the Saints would adapt and come out in the Frozen Four...